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envrionmental issues
social psychology and envieonmental issues
Question | Answer |
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Types of Concern by Stern et al | Alturistic, egoistic, biospheric |
Social norms | perceived common and accepted behaviour in a specific situation |
Sky pointing/gawking | Milgram et al, 1969 |
Smoke filling room | Latane and Darley, 1968 |
Flyers on car | Cialini, Kallgren and Zaleski, 2008 |
Descriptive norms | common behaviour, your belief about what others do |
Injunctive norms | accepted behaviour, your belief about what other people think you should do |
Need to play on both desciptive and injunctive norms | Cialdini, 2003 |
Towels in hotels 1 - generic were better than specific descriptive norms | Schultz, Khazin and Zaleski, 2008 |
Towels in hotels 2 - found that general and specific norms had a bigger effect than playing on identity (gender/ethnicity), which is the reverse of what participants expected | Goldstein, Cialdini and Frrskevicius, 2008 |
Four core psychological variables in influencing behaviour | Van Vugt, 2010 |
Understanding psychological variable | Focus of intervention: information |
Belonging psychological vairable | Focus of intervention: identity |
Trusting psychological variable | Focus of intervention: institutions |
Self-enhancing psychological variable | Focus of intervention: incentives |